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Review: Glasshouse
Great sci-fi that’s really a meditation on memory.
The Great Pool of Money
You should listen to this fantastic podcast which explains the origins of the credit crisis.
Review: The Sociopath Next Door
An important book about the hidden menace of sociopaths.
Review: Homicide
Excellent non-fiction about homicide squads from one of the creators of The Wire.
New levels of disgust
Nic is pissed off about politics, including the perennial favorites the war in Iraq and gas prices.
Review: The Price of Privilege
Important book about how pressure from well-meaning parents hurt affluent children.
Holy Docsis, Batman!
If your Internet connection isn’t as fast as you’d like, it might be time to upgrade your cable modem.
Review: The Scar
The Scar is a great, weird novel, but it makes Nic worry he might be a steampunk.
Review: Everything is Miscellaneous
Interesting book, but too much filler and techno-utopianism.
Review: Lord of the Silent Kingdom
The second installment of Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night delivers.
Movie roundup, part seven
Lots of violence in this round-up. Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Smashing Machine, Slim Susie, Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Grindhouse: Deathproof.
Super Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!
Nic goes to the polls and discovers you need two proofs of identity to vote in Ariz. now.
The worms
My daughter hears anti-semitism and blissfully misinterprets it.
Review: Consider the Lobster
Excellent collection of writing from the great David Foster Wallace.